Recently, I had the opportunity to take Oracle certification exam 1Z0-233: Oracle 11i Install, Patch, and Maintain Applications, the final step in the Oracle 11i Applications DBA certification chain. I would have taken this exam a long time ago, but somehow managed to miss the important detail that 9i and 10g DBA OCPs could skip […]

Typing is my third-most frequent cause of self-inflicted work stress. For some reason, despite decades spent at a keyboard, it feels like I spend more time hitting backspace than any other key. When working with Oracle Apps, I try to make my life easier by adding some shortcuts to the the applmgr user’s .profile. What […]